Bryn Mawr College, MS 47

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS16547

Shelfmark:

MS 47

Title:

De miseria conditionis humanae

De miseria condicionis humane

Author:

Bracciolini, Poggio, 1380-1459

Poggio Bracciolini WIKIDATA

Place:

Italy

Italy TGN

Date:

1455-1499

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Material:

Paper

Paper AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: ii+ 48+ii; 255 x 207 mm bound to 261 x 218 mm; paper

Former Owner(s):

Gordon, Phyllis Goodhart

Phyllis Walter Goodhart Gordan WIKIDATA

Gordan, John Dozier Jr.

John Dozier Gordan WIKIDATA

Note:

Previously called Gordan MS 50
Binding: Modern paper boards, leather spine, stamped in gold: POGGIO/ DE/ MISERIA. Restored by J. MacDonald Co. East Norwalk, Conn.
Layout: Single column of twenty-nine lines; ruled in hardpoint with vertical bounding lines full length; written area: 145 x 111 mm
Script: Humanistic
Decoration: One four-line red penwork initial with elaborate black penwork extensions stretching along the inner margin appears on fol. 1r, and on 28r a similar, but slightly less elaborate, three-line initial begins Book 2; on fol. 2v space for initial left unfilled; marginalia throughout
Related resource: Kristeller, P.O., Iter Italicum; a finding list of uncatalogued or incompletely catalogued humanistic manuscripts of the Renaissance in Italian and Other Libraries (London, 1963-97), vol. 5, p. 399, no. 50.
Related resource: Bond, W. H. Supplement to the census of medieval and renaissance manuscripts in the United States and Canada. New York: Bibliographical Society of America, 1962. p. 351, no. 50.
Related resource: Bracciolini, Poggius. De miseria. R. Fubini, ed., Opera omnia I (Torino, 1964) 86-131.
Provenance: Written in Italy in the second half of the fifteenth century; early provenance unknown; in the library of Phyllis Goodhart Gordan (bookplate) and John Dozier Gordan, Jr.; her bequest to Bryn Mawr College in 1995

Keyword:

Italian (culture or style)

Fifteenth century

Italy

decorated initials

treatises

Institutional Record:

https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0003/html/BMC_MS47.html

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/3/BMC_MS47/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Bryn Mawr College